An 8.8 earthquake, 100 times more powerful than Haiti, struck Chile early Saturday morning, causing a massive amount of destruction, fallen buildings and at least 140 deaths. Tsunami warnings were called for the coasts of California and all of Hawaii, but the warnings have since been cancelled. Since the earthquake hit on Saturday morning, a […]
VIA: CNN.com As the sun set in Chile on Saturday, a picture of the immense structural damage wrought by an early morning earthquake had come clearly into focus, with the nation’s president estimating that 2 million people had been affected in some way. More than 300 people were killed, according to Chile’s Office of Emergency […]
VIA: New Orleans Times-Picayune Admitting a massive cover-up, a former New Orleans police supervisor pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge on Wednesday, confessing that he participated in a conspiracy to justify the shooting of six unarmed people after Hurricane Katrina that was hatched not long after police stopped firing their weapons. The guilty plea […]
The AJC.com is reporting that investigators seized three computer hard drives and other items from DeKalb schools Superintendent Crawford Lewis’ home Thursday as part of a criminal investigation into multimillion-dollar school construction projects. Investigators from the district attorney’s office have been searching Lewis’ Stone Mountain home and three school offices since 7:30 a.m. Around 12:30 […]
VIA: CNN.com A killer whale killed a trainer Wednesday afternoon at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Department said. The woman, 40, was in the whale holding area about 2 p.m. when “she apparently slipped or fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales,” the […]
VIA: New York Times Barely 18 hours after an earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, the Rev. Pat Robertson supplied a televised discourse on the nation’s history, theology and destiny. Haiti has suffered, he explained, because its rebellious slaves “swore a pact with the devil” to overthrow the French two centuries ago. Ever since, he […]
VIA: AJC.com The fate of Devonni “Devo” Benton, accused of murder in the September shooting death of Spelman student Jasmine Lynn, is now in the hands of a Fulton County jury. Before Fulton Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. released the jurors, they heard final arguments calling for them to either convict Benton or […]
VIA: KXAN.com A small plane crashed into a business tower that houses some federal offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday morning, engulfing the entire front half of the seven-story building in flames. The plane, a Cherokee 140, hit the Echelon Building around 10 a.m. Federal officials are reporting to CNN that the plane’s pilot set […]
VIA: AJC.com Today was the start of the murder trial of Devonni Manuel Benton, who is accused of fatally shooting Spelman College sophomore Jasmine Lynn in the early hours of Sept. 3 as she walked past a fight on the Clark Atlanta campus. Benton wore a black pin-striped suit as he listened to Fulton County […]
VIA: Detroit News Detroit — City Council President Charles Pugh and the Rev. Marvin L. Winans Sr. sparred today over an effort to water down a controversial strip club crackdown, ending with Pugh calling out the popular pastor for living in the suburbs. Winans, the pastor of Perfecting Church, sounded off during a council session […]
VIA: New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Their holy books vary widely and so does their disaster apparel. Devotees of Supreme Master Ching Hai, a Vietnamese spiritual leader, wore fluorescent yellow vests on their way into quake-damaged Haiti. Mormons wore their trademark white shirts and ties. And an array of others — Scientologists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, […]
VIA: New York Times Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook and single parent, was days from deploying to Afghanistan last fall when her mother backed out of an agreement to take care of her 10-month-old son for the duration of her one-year tour. Specialist Hutchinson’s mother, Angelique Hughes, had a child of her own […]